The Mickey Hart Collection: 10 Free Downloads

By Jordan Liffengren

October 17, 2011 3:34 pm

The Mickey Hart Collection: 10 Free Downloads

By Jordan Liffengren

Published October 17, 2011

The Mickey Hart Collection, a 25-album series from Grateful
Dead drummer Mickey Hart and non-profit label Smithsonian Folkways, is now
available for purchase. 10 songs can be downloaded for free from
folkways.si.edu and mickeyhart.net. The collection
includes music from virtually every corner of the globe and has been
made digitally available for the first time by Smithsonian Folkways.
The Mickey Hart Collection is drawn from The World, a series Hart
curated that incorporates his solo projects, other artists’ productions,
and re-releases of out-of-print titles. Six of the 25 albums form the
Endangered Music Project, a collaboration between Mickey Hart and the
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, which presents
recordings from musical traditions at risk.